“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement,” Golda Meir.  The human soul knows what it needs on so many levels and it constantly feeds us signs and reminders through feelings and thoughts.  When we feel an excitement for something, when we feel strongly about something, we need to take the time to dive deeper into it—is this a temporary thing?  Is this a different type of calling?  Is this a sign of something more that has a bigger purpose?  The other day we spoke about how we don’t always feel ready and that we should take the chance anyway—that chance, that feeling often starts with these little flames, the sparks we feel.  The result comes with action, the fanning and encouragement of those flames. We learn through doing.  We are so worried about what we look like that we fear looking like a novice even when we are novices.  We can’t get to the end before we’ve walked the path.  Everyone has to begin at some point—we all start at step one.  So why do we want to look like we know what we do not know? Perhaps it is some old fear, some old worry about appearing vulnerable.  But we can never take the next step if we aren’t willing to admit what we need to learn.

So with the understanding that all we have is now and that the only way to experience growth is for us to follow through on those feelings of potential, then we must accept that we have to be willing to learn.  We have to be willing to be that novice so we can become the expert.  Learn the most we can and see where those little sparks can bring us.  Learn what we are meant to be.  No one begins an expert, knowing everything about anything, not even the things we are drawn to.  We have to learn and sometimes that means taking a path we wouldn’t think to take.  Often times what we think something appears to be is not what it actually is or the option in front of us seems far from what we think we need to do, but we have to do it even if it doesn’t feel quite right—like we aren’t quite ready.  We must allow the universe to surprise us and teach us, perhaps both, and become what we are meant to be. We learn in doing things we haven’t done before.  It’s when we learn that we can take on our responsibility. Sometimes we fear the fire that burns inside of us because we don’t want to be erased or we don’t want all we knew to disappear because the unknown is unfamiliar.  But sometimes we have to burn away the excess, the extraneous so we know what is real and what life is trying to bring us.  The spark can be intimidating/scary if we’ve been burned before—sometimes it does burn.  Other times we burn away what is no longer necessary and we reveal who we are.  Either way we learn, either way we become who we are meant to be.